wa00004/wa00004.2. Memoirs
Found in 80 Collections and/or Records:
McCown Family Papers
Northwest Iowa family including Robert McCown, head of the University of Iowa Libraries Department of Special Collections from 1986-1997.
Charla Boyle papers
"Toot's Eye View:" a memoir by Charla "Toot" Boyle about her mother, who moved to Fort Madison, Iowa in 1921.
Effie "Hadley" Brindle papers
Farm wife in Hardin County, Iowa, whose husband served in the Iowa House of Representatives in 1941 and 1943.
Cordelia Maring Peterson papers
A memoir, "Answering the Call: My Life Story."
Viola Holthaus Rigney papers
A memoir, "Tall Corn Tales: Recollections of an Iowa Farm Girl."
Florence Krogman Schumacher papers
"My Iowa Farm Memories," by Florence Krogman Schumacher, describes growing up on a farm in Plymouth County, Iowa in the 1920s and 1930s.
Esther Flower Cruikshank Papers
Photocopy of memoir, "The Covered Wagon," by Esther Flower Cruikshank written in 1927.
Mary Bell Read Glick papers
Two memoirs, "Adolph Gfeller Family: A Pictorial History of a Pioneer German Swiss Farm Family in Kansas, beginning 1874" and "Our 64 Years, 1932-1996," by Mary Bell Glick.
Zelinda Griffith Hadley papers
Typed memoir titled "Zelinda Griffith Hadley Story."
Doris Wessel papers
Reminiscence, "My Life as a Farm Woman," by Doris Wessel.
Clara Woodmansee Winchell papers
"Stories Of My Childhood" by Clara Woodmansee Winchell.
Ella Elmegreen Lage papers
Bound memoir, “Me and Laura,” written by Ella Elmegreen Lage in 1962 about her family history in Scott County, Iowa.
Esther Hasson Morris papers
A memoir, "Grandpa's Legacy: Short Stories of My Life."
David Nadler papers
Memoir of a Renate Nadler’s experience as a Jewish child in Nazi Germany written by her son, and an account of her son’s visit to her birthplace several decades following World War II.
Lois Plummer Hartline papers
Nursing student at University of Iowa College of Nursing in the 1950s
Heidi Posch Keir Galer papers
Award-winning German teacher that taught in Iowa City for 35 years who came to Iowa from Austria as a displaced refugee orphan in 1952.
Autobiographical Sketches of Rural Iowa Women
Reminiscences of Iowa Farm Bureau women donated to the Rural Women's Project.
Arrangement
Four folders, shelved in SCVF.
Ruth Bluford Anderson papers
Professor Emeritus of Social Work at the University of Northern Iowa, author, and Black Hawk County Supervisor.
Ruth Fuller papers
The first female pilot in Appanoose County and active in the local Democratic Party.